Leave Me Alone Quotes - Page 3

• And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

  Bruce Nauman

  Knowing, Way, Steps

  "Setting a Good Corner". The ART21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

  Alison Weir

  Book, Would Be, World

  Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC

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• Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

  Terry Goodkind

  Betrayal, Hate, Complacency

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.476, Head of Zeus

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• My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

  Jim Carrey

  Christmas, Daughter, Mother

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• Drinking again? Go to hell. All I ever do is make some movies that made a lot of money now leave me alone, I want to have some fun.

  Bill Murray

  Fun, Drinking, Want

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• I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

  J. J. Abrams

  Ideas, Trying, Ends

  "J.J. Abrams Talks STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, 3D, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5, the FRINGE Finale, Future Projects, Maintaining Secrecy and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 6, 2013.

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• When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Nice, Hair, Ideas

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• Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

  David Brooks

  Character, People, Important

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• It's not fair. Why won't the media leave me alone? Why?

  Michael J. Jackson

  Media, Tabloids, Leaving Me

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• The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Mean, Ideas, Tolerance

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• Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It's Monday.

  Paige

  Monday, Giving, Treats

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• I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Race, Names

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• Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.

  Rumi

  Wine, Kissing, Night

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• I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Nice, Writing, Going Away

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• All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Change, Ideas, Political

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

  Slick Rick

  Song, Guy, Trying

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• I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Luck, Bars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• "Just leave me alone, I want to be alone," she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

  Sarah Mayberry

  Exercise, Doors, Car

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• But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Strong, Passion, Heart

  Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, John Silence Series, Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Wave, The Listener…”, p.2578, e-artnow

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• In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.

  Tom Morello

  Sheep, Band, World

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• Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Player, Kicks

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• That’s because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Rays, Leaving Me, Me Alone

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• Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

  David Sanborn

  Knowing, Quests, Enough

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• why can't you just get out of here and leave me alone?"i bellowed. "i can't!" dylan shouted back,his face twisted with an anger i'd never seen from him. "you can,"i said through gritted teeth."just point your wings that way and flap!

  James Patterson

  Wings, Teeth, Way

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• I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Never Leave Me, Leaving Me, Cried

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.452, Hachette UK

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